LAB MEMBERS

Lab Director

YAACOV TROPE

Professor Of Psychology

My research focuses on two sets of issues. The first concerns the cognitive, motivational, and social factors that enable people to transcend the "here and now." People often get immersed in their immediate egocentric concerns. My lab examines what enables people to go beyond those myopic concerns and see themselves in the future, through another person's eyes, in different societies and cultures, and in hypothetical and novel situations. There is marked variation in the breadth of people’s mental horizons, namely, in how distant in time, culture, and geography are the possibilities people envision, care about, and plan for. My research seeks to shed light on the psychological mechanisms that narrow or broaden people’s mental horizons. We also explore the real life consequences of narrow vs. broad mental horizons for the way people relate to their social and natural environment.

The second set of issues concerns self control. The question is when and how people fail to do what they want while possessing the knowledge, skill, and opportunity that are required to do what they want. How do we—individuals or groups—(sometimes) manage to act in line with our overriding goals when faced with tempting alternatives? This research investigates the conscious and unconscious mechanisms that serve to resolve conflicts between people's local, short-term concerns and their global, long-term concerns.

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Postdoctoral Researchers

Rasha Kardosh

Rasha Kardosh is a Provost Postdoctoral Fellow in the Psychology Department. Rasha’s research centers on how the cognitive system represents the social diversity of our environments. Building on classical theories and paradigms from social psychology and cognitive science, she explores the different cognitive processes that underlie our (mis)perceptions of the diversity of social environments and our social views on diversity and equality.

Graduate Students

Maryam Bin Meshar

My research explores the psychological mechanisms that shape social projection and mental states inferences. I’m interested in how people perceive similarities with others across time, space, and social groups and how people expand their mental horizons when they learn new information, specially when their motivation is to inform others. I'm also interested in understanding the cognitive underpinnings of mental states inferences.

Kalman Victor

How do our psychological and behavioral responses differ when we are dealing with socially diverse vs. homogeneous groups? How do we use mental abstraction to form a unified response when intragroup differences—and the complexities they introduce to the task of mental representation—are salient in a social encounter? Using methods that borrow from social and cognitive psychology, as well as computational analysis of language data, I study these questions as they pertain to broader processes social cognition such as mental simulation, social judgment, impression formation, and communication. Alongside these questions, I am particularly fascinated by how we can combine computational methods from the natural language processing space with psychological theory to better understand signatures of mental abstraction in language use.

MaXiao

My research interests focus on how construal levels affect agency and motivation, and how this research can be applied to interpersonal settings to help facilitate growth and bridge performance gaps in minority students.

Question 1) Do individuals prefer and value control over ends (vs. means), and does socioeconomic background/experience of scarcity predispose one to be myopic and overemphasize over means (not ends)?
Question 2) How do role models best motivate through different types of advice?

Lab Affiliates

Rui Du

Ph.D. Candidate, Marketing Department, Baruch College

My research focuses on understanding how consumer interaction with technology influences their moral behavior. Morality has long been a topic in intellectual history. My research explores the theoretical as well as practical implications of moral decision making under the context of human-technology interaction. This area of research extends a preponderance of theoretical work in morality into a technology context and offers exciting findings to academics and marketing managers.

Lab Alumni

Post-Doctoral Student

(listed in the order of name, current affiliation, current position)

Elinor Amit, Havard University, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Miriam Bassok, University of Washington, Professor of Psychology
David Bosch, New York University, Lecturer in the Management Division
Shana Cole, Rutgers University, Assistant Professor of Psychology
Melissa Ferguson, Cornell University, Associate Professor of Psychology
Ran Hassin, Hebrew University, Professor of Psychology
Marlone Henderson, The University of Texas at Austin, Assistant Professor in Psychology
David Kalkstein, Stanford University, Postdoctoral Fellow
Ellie Kyung, Dartmouth University, Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Eva Pomerantz, National University of Singapore, Professor of Psychology
Chen Pundak, New York University
Raj Raghunathan, University of Illionis at Urbana-Champaign, Professor of Marketing
Eva Walther, The University of Trier, Professor of Social Psychology

Ph.D. Student

Nidhi Agrawal, University of Washington, Michael G. Foster Associate Professor of Marketing
Hillel Aviezer, Hebrew University, Senior Researcher
Fredrik Björklund, Lund University, Professor of Psychology
Ashli Carter, Columbia Business School, Clinical Assistant Professor
Steven Chan, Yeshiva University, Assistant Professor of Marketing
Baruch Eitam, University of Haifa, Assistant Professor of Psychology
Michael Feder, NYU Grossman of Medicine, Clinical Assistant Professor
Ayelet Fishbach, The University of Chicago, Professor of Behavioral Science and Marketing
Kentaro Fujita, The Ohio State University, Associate Professor of Psychology
Ruth Gaunt, University of Lincoln, UK, Reader in Psychology
Yasaman Ghodse-Elahi, US Bank, Behavioral Scientist
Ana Guinote, University College London, Senior Lecturer
Jochim Hansen, University of Salzburg, Assistant Professor of Psychology
Alexa Hubbard, Facebook, User Experience Researcher
Eric Igou, University of Limerick, Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Caglar Irmak, University of Miami, Associate Professor of Marketing
Tali Kleiman, Hebrew University, Assistant Professor of Psychology
Margarita Krochick
Alison Ledgerwood, University of California - Davis, Assistant Professor of Psychology
Nira Liberman, Tel Aviv University, Professor of Psychology
Ido Liviatan, Open University of Israel, Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Ethan Ludwin-Peery, Hampshire College, Visiting Assistant Professor
Sam Maglio, University of Toronto, Assistant Professor of Marketing
Lewend Mayiwar, BI Norwegian Business School
Johann Melzner, University of Miami, Assistant Professor of Marketing
Avital Mentovich, University of California - Los, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Efrat Neter, Angeles, Senior Lecturer
Ravit Nussinson, Ruppin Academic Center, Lecturer in Psychology
Dongwon Oh, Open University of Israel, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology
Kyle Ratner, The University of Texas at Austin, Assistant Professor of Psychology
Jean-Nicolas Reyt, University of California - Santa Barbara, Assistant Professor of Marketing
SoYon Rim, William Paterson University, Assistant Professor of Psychology
Michael Sagristano, Nielssen, Senior Manager, Analytic Consulting
Anni Sternisko, Streitgut, Consultant
Pamela K. Smith, University of California, San Diego, Assistant Professor of Management and Strategy
Alex Todorov, Princeton University, Professor of Psychology
Gülden Ülkümen, University of Southern California, Associate Professor of Marketing
Cheryl Wakslak, University of Southern California, Associate Professor of Management and Organization
Marika Yip-Banniq, Columbia University, Lecturer in the Discipline of Psychology
Daniel Yudkin, University of Pennsylvania, Postdoctoral Fellow

Honors Student

Irina Feygina, American Psychological Association, Congressional Fellow

Others

Sean Lane, University of Missouri, Post-Doctoral Fellow

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